The education debate we're not having

If you have a heart attack while roofing your house or are trapped by fire on the top floor of a high-rise building, you may want to have it happen in Sunnyside. Firefighters here spent the past two days learning how to extricate victims in those situations and carry them to safety.

DOLORES E. SELBY

GRANDVIEW - A safety net is being woven by the Grandview School District, police department and the city's parks and recreation department to protect Grandview's children from falling into gang activities.

They deserved to lose

When Sony released its Playstation 3, it was hot news for a cold group that gathered in front of Wal-Mart at 6 a.m. this past Wednesday to get in line to spend $599 for one of only 12 systems that went on sale at 12:01 a.m. this morning (Friday).

MARGARET DENAE RAWLINGS

Thursday, November 16

The Churchill Media family of stations, La Maquina/La X 98.7 FM, Radio Tekila 101.7 FM and KZXR-The Source 1310 AM, are inviting families of the Valley to their Thanksgiving dinner for the less fortunate.

Wednesday, November 15

GRANDVIEW - Proposed delays in improvements to the library and parks would help Grandview trim its budget deficit, the city council learned last night during the first of two preliminary budget meetings.

Four Sunnyside City planning commissioners, from a panel of six, were faced with a decision last night that might have had a different outcome if the two absent members, Rolando Alvarez and Stephen Maltos, had been present to cast their votes on the annexation of 100 acres surrounding the city's airport.

MABTON - At its Oct. 10 meeting, Mabton City Council voted against a resolution agreeing to pay Granger $500 for goods and services pertaining to Interim Mabton Police Chief and current Granger Police Chief Robert Perales. What they voted against was a contract.

ROGER DALE DUNCAN

PROSSER - Wyoming native Lois Williams set the crowd laughing with a youthful tale of ending up on Cape Cod when she was supposed to meet her then boyfriend-now husband of 41 years-Fred in Connecticut.

Kimbrell - Rojas

All of the acting was exceptional this past weekend, but it was Linda Martin as Portia and Joyce Taylor as Joy who stole the spotlight. The two evil step-sisters were truly frightening and provided comic relief at the same time.

YAKIMA - Seniors in the Grandview volleyball program earned their fourth consecutive State trophy this past weekend, finding their best results yet with a second-place finish at the 2A State tourney held in the SunDome.

GRANDVIEW - It makes perfect sense that Grandview VFW Post #6929 would adopt the National Guard 790th Company housed in Grandview. In the past, they've adopted troops from other companies, as well as the grandson of a Ladies Auxiliary member.

LAS VEGAS - A victory in the 2006 Lucas Oil NHRA Division 7 race in Nevada allowed Sunnyside's John Dalrymple to move up 14 spots to finish in fourth place for the 2006 NHRA Division 6 season in the super street class.

Wednesday, November 8

MABTON - At their first preliminary budget meeting for the 2007 fiscal year this past Monday evening, Mabton City Council members mulled budget requests from public works, the fire and police departments and administration.

Bucking a national trend that saw Democrats take control of the U.S. House-and perhaps the Senate-Lower Valley residents voted overwhelmingly yesterday to retain all three 15th District state legislative incumbents.

GRANDVIEW - Grandview City Administrator Scott Staples reported to the Grandview City Council Monday night at a study session the feasibility of consolidating Grandview's municipal court with Yakima County District Court, which has a facility in Grandview.

Fergurson - Zuniga

PASCO - Saving perhaps her best effort for her last performance of the season, Bickleton High School sophomore Danielle Raschko came away from the Washington State 2B/1B Girls Cross Country Meet with a medal last Saturday.

A woman reported to police that she was robbed after being shown a gun in the parking lot of Bank of America at about 5:30 p.m. last Friday. No further information was provided by police at press time.

Begin play 9 a.m. Friday

GRANDVIEW - Jacob Johnston, Othello's running back and the leading rusher in the CWAC this year, ran for 287 yards and five touchdowns as the Huskies routed Grandview 47-12 last Friday night in the Greyhounds' last game of the season.

Friday, November 3

PARKER - After taking control of Sunnyside Dam Park on Yakima Valley Highway last June, the Sunnyside Valley Irrigation District (SVID) recently finished improvements to the park overlooking the Sunnyside Dam.

Think van pool

Just in time for Thanksgiving, a group of local residents got together to learn how to de-bone a turkey and, in the process, raise $600 for the Sunnyside Community Hospital emergency department expansion.

Wednesday, November 1

PROSSER - On a freezing Halloween night the Grandview Greyhounds and the Prosser Mustangs met in a loser-out CWAC District playoff game with the Mustangs coming out on top and advancing in the playoffs, 5-1.